Sean Coffey/WTVD News City leaders and development partners unveiled new plans on Wednesday for Heritage Park, an affordable housing community on the southern edge of downtown Raleigh. The redevelopment will introduce hundreds of new units in the coming years, increasing from 120 to over 1,000, with most being affordable. Originally...

DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio Voters will see two races on their ballots for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners in this year’s primary. Two Democrats are competing to represent District 7. Walter Johnson is facing Lisa McMillan. One of them will replace Commissioner Frankie Jones, who announced last year he’s not...

Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer The controversial Queen Farm subdivision in Waynesville will grow from 115 to 261 homes following a heated and emotional public hearing last week, where speakers and a divided planning board lamented the erosion of Waynesville’s character from the mega development. Phase II of the subdivision will...

Hannah Leyva/WNCN News A Roanoke Rapids school district employee is accused of using money from an elementary school Parent Teacher Organization for her own use. Roanoke Rapids police said that a “report of potential embezzlement by an employee of the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District” was given to them on...

The Southern Pines Pilot The United States Golf Association announced the 2026 Greenkeeper Apprenticeship Program (GAP) class marks the fourth year of the program. The 35 apprentices across both the Pinehurst and Myrtle Beach locations receive a combination of on-the-job training and classroom instruction, allowing the students to take their...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio The Department of Homeland Security is facing a new class action lawsuit in North Carolina, accusing officers of making illegal, warrantless arrests, including of U.S. citizens. A lawsuit filed Tuesday by the ACLU of North Carolina, Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Democracy Forward claims federal immigration...

Colin Campbell/WUNC News The Democratic primary in the Triangle’s 4th Congressional District could become a referendum on the party’s approach in Congress to battling the Trump administration. Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term in the seat, but she’s facing a primary challenge from the Durham County commissioner she...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  North Carolina’s Republicans were united with praise and its Democrats unsurprisingly in rejection to the State of the Union on Tuesday night. The 108-minute delivery from second-term Republican President Donald Trump intertwined the nation’s ninth largest state with ties to his policy initiatives, military readiness and...

Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline The North Carolina Board of Elections on Wednesday selected a company to upgrade the state’s elections information software. The board voted unanimously to hire ReFrame Solutions, based in Connecticut. ReFrame bid $4.66 million for the job, according to a news release. Six companies bid on the work,...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN News Four employees at a bar in Chapel Hill are facing charges in connection with a deadly crash in Harnett County that killed three people last week, the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division said Wednesday. The crash on Feb. 14 took the lives of two paratroopers stationed...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Cumberland County commissioners grappled with a question that has become increasingly urgent across North Carolina: whether the economic upside of billion‑dollar data centers outweighs the pressure they place on local power and water supplies, as well as nearby neighborhoods. Officials stressed throughout a special work session on...

Nick Broadway/WAVY News It was Feb. 3, right after a snowfall, and a cold day to be on a boat taking water, but thanks to quick thinking, a fellow fishing captain was able to get there in a matter of minutes and help make the rescue. Lifelong fisherman Capt. Buddy...

Josh Shaffer & Chantal Allam/The Raleigh News & Observer When it opened in 2002, Triangle Town Center drew 1,500 shoppers before sunrise, all of them eager to browse the state’s first Saks Fifth Avenue, gawk at the mall’s 18-foot indoor waterfall and stroll down the artificial river that burbled alongside...

Sarah Krueger/WRAL News Nonprofit CJF America President Kristen Picot was found guilty on Wednesday of one count of a simple worthless check charge. A judge found Picot not guilty of two other counts of issuing a simple worthless check. The judge dismissed a fourth count of the same charge because...

Katie Myers & Laura Hackett/Grist & NC Health News Regina is haunted by the specter of mold. She found the insidious spores in the closet, behind the refrigerator, and around the bathtub for two years after the dishwasher flooded her apartment in Asheville, North Carolina. The infestation only got worse...